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If life with your teen has become a battleground, it's time to take action. This empathic book shows how. Trusted psychologists who have worked with thousands of families give you the tools you need to overcome defiance and get teen behavior back on track. By following the authors' clinically proven 10-step program, learn how you can: ● Reestablish your authority while building trust. ● Identify and enforce nonnegotiable rules. ● Use rewards and incentives that work. ● Communicate and problem-solve effectively--even in the heat of the moment. ● Restore positive feelings in your relationship. ● Develop your teen's skills for becoming a successful adult. Vivid stories and answers to frequently asked questions help you put the techniques into action. The updated second edition incorporates new scientific research on why some teens have more problems with self-control than others.

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Russell A. Barkley, PhD, has published numerous books and five assessment scales, plus more than 260 scientific articles and book chapters on ADHD, executive functioning, and childhood defiance. He is also the editor of the newsletter The ADHD Report. A frequent conference presenter and speaker who is widely cited in the national media, he is past president of the Section on Clinical Child Psychology (the former Division 12) of the American Psychological Association, and of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. Arthur L. Robin, PhD, is director of psychology training at children's hospital of Michigan and professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at Wayne State University. Dr. Robin is a practicing psychologist with more than forty years of clinical experience. Christine M. Benton is a Chicago-based writer and editor. Barry Abrams has narrated and produced audiobooks for a variety of publishers. Since 2012, he has also hosted and produced ESPN's In the Gate podcast. Based in Danbury, Connecticut, he also engineers and calls live webcasts of his son's ice hockey games.

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